Shut her up.

SNP ministers tried to “silence and intimidate” a female prisoner who had been traumatised by sharing a jail with biological men by sending her testimony to police, a court has been told.

Aidan O’Neill KC, who is representing For Women Scotland (FWS) in its latest legal battle with the Scottish government, argued that ministers were in contempt of court by sending a draft of the woman’s written evidence to Police Scotland without her or the court’s permission.

The devolved government, which is fighting in court to continue to allow biological men who identify as women to remain in women’s prisons, also urged Lady Ross KC on Tuesday not to accept the sworn affidavit, calling it “irrelevant” to the case.

Well let’s face it, women themselves are irrelevant. Let’s all just pack up and go home.

O’Neill claimed that the government’s actions amounted to an attempt to “discipline and punish a woman for speaking out” on gender issues, arguing that sending her allegations to detectives, as well as her name, was a “startling” abuse of court process.

The affidavit provided to the court was from a former prisoner who spoke of the “humiliation, fear and intimidation” she had experienced at having to serve her sentence with transgender women.

Who are men, and not just any men, but deceptive manipulative lying abusive men.

The SNP government, in its legal response to the FWS’s campaign to have prison policy ruled unlawful, has denied that female inmates are disadvantaged by having to share supposedly single-sex jails with men.

In one submission, ministers likened housing potentially violent trans women in female jails to a mother taking her young son into a single-sex changing room, saying that neither would “challenge the dignity” of females.

Who are these people? How can they possibly say that?

FWS has claimed that, after last year’s Supreme Court ruling, in which they defeated the SNP ministers for a second time, housing biological men in female jails is unlawful. The Supreme Court ruled that sex in the Equalities Act should mean biological sex.

The Scottish government has rejected this, despite publicly accepting the ruling and rewriting gender policies in schools, claiming that a “blanket” policy in which no men could serve sentences in female jails would breach the human rights of transgender inmates.

And we can’t have that. But, oddly enough, we can have breaching the human rights of female inmates. Male “transgender” inmates can have whatever they want; female inmates must shut up and take it.